r/cscareerquestionsOCE

TLDR :- Macquarie Group gave me a rejection call instead of a standard rejection email

I had a very unique and positive experience with the Macquarie Group yesterday and I thought I should shout out people for doing the right thing.
I'm an early career software engineer that works in C++, and I've been applying to Finance/HFT/MFT type places for C++ engineer roles cus thats where i see my skills being applied. I applied to a job like that for Macquarie group that asked for 3+ years of experience working in C++ and Linux, and a bunch of other things that were in my skillset. Only issue being I've only been a "Software Engineer" for 2 years(used to be a contract game developer before hand for a few years). Went with the "If you match 60% of the job description rule and went for it".
A few days later to my surprise i get a call from somebody at the macquarie group saying, "You are exactly skills are exactly what we want but we are looking for somebody who is more senior, so i can't offer you this role. I didn't want to send you just a standard rejection email, There will be probably something that opens up for your experience level and i'll hold you're application till then".
Even though this is just a rejection, it's so much better than the alternative where in my head I would've been not good enough skills wise, now i know what was the requirement i failed.

Kudos Macquarie Group recruiter guy.

edit:- I am currently employed, just looking for a career move so this wasn't devastating

Just going philosophical while my Claude is running.

A company won't mind a 10x dev in San Francisco burning 500K worth of tokens which is equal to their pay. If some dev in Eastern Europe burns 500K, that's a different story. We, Aussies are still on the high side with average dev making like 100K, so AI also gives us an advantage?

What do you think?

(All money in USD.)

all the colleagues, hundreds now, prefer dark theme overwhelmingly. while i go with light all the time.

Who has found a graduate role after graduating?

Who is still looking for a role?

Did you do any internships?

How long have you been looking for?

Or if you haven't found anything related to your degree what are you doing now?

As title, the context is that i have outside internship experience (grad/non-grad)

I’m about six months into the job hunt with what I’d consider a solid portfolio, but I’ve only landed two screening calls so far. Starting to question whether I’m aiming too high and if I should just go for a help desk role to get something on the board. For those who’ve been in a similar spot, did taking that step actually help or just slow things down long term?

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Show me some hopes guys, been applying to every tech grad roles but can’t seem to land any interview. Did OA for couple but that’s it.

Anyone having any success? Just wondering if it’s my resume or my visa status…

Hi I am wondering when do applications open for Atlassian Graduate Program 2026/2027? Or have I missed the deadline already..? lol

Does anyone know how long in weeks or months, Atlassian normally recruits for before reaching HC?

Title.

Got invited to a 4-hour onsite for Jump Trading's SWE Intern program and was wondering what I could expect. The recruiter is very vague about it but looks like its going to consist of 4 interviews (behavioural and technical). Besides mock interviews + Leetcode not too sure how to prepare myself. Also wondering how many rounds of interviews there's gonna be after, recruiter also kinda vague on that but pretty sure I'm on 2nd last or last stage. Any help will be appreciated.

I have received an invitation to participate in the AC for this role with the Public Transport Authority (WA). Has anybody participated or passed this before? Super keen on this role as it looks like everything a cyber grad could ask for.

Everybody, the Parliament of Australia is currently doing a formal inquiry into Australian university graduates. They're taking submissions from anyone who has anything to say about Australian university.

Whether you can't get a job, weren't provided with networking opportunities, or perhaps even think that your entire degree is cooked; they want to hear it all.

We doompost all the time on here, but now the government can hear it for themselves:
https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Education_and_Employment/AusUniGraduates

Submissions close on 5 June 2026. (can this post be pinned please)

I've made it past the OA have an AI assisted coding interview coming up. Does anyone have any tips or can share their experience?

has anyone interviewed at them?
what do you expect?

ps: very poor, unemployed, will code for food

Built a low-latency mock interview pad / code sharing because Codeshare kept lagging/desyncing for me

I’ve been doing RSP-style mock interviews for a while now (usually 1 medium + 1 easy, no compiler and talking through my thought process as I code), and one thing that kept annoying me was how unreliable Codeshare felt during mocks.

A few times, it would lag or desync what I wrote vs what the other person wrote in the middle of the session, which completely killed the flow. I was also juggling notes in Notepad and a timer in another tab, which felt pretty clunky.

So I built a simple pad for mock interviews / collaborative coding with the stuff I actually wanted:

• low latency + auto sync
• multiple tabs in one pad
• language selection
• built-in interview timer
• private notes sidebar for interviewer thoughts
• light/dark mode
• no login required

You can also just use it as a plain-text coding practice pad instead of Google Docs.

Link: https://codepadd.vercel.app/

This is the first project I’ve shared, so I’d genuinely appreciate feedback, especially on:

• whether this solves a real pain point for mocks
• missing features you’d want
• anything confusing / rough in the UX

https://preview.redd.it/75xhk31hknwg1.png?width=1917&format=png&auto=webp&s=7dbb2271ee8e9dcdd9c155bbba291c3437f6ad70

Hello!

I've been out of University and looking for a job for almost 2 years. I really need some help trying to get a job as my strategy clearly isn't working. I have applied for hundreds of grad positions and entry level jobs posted on Seek and Indeed. Seek and Indeed I never have the qualifications and the grad positions all seem to have an automatic test I can never pass. I've had a few interviews and got very close on one occasion but the job ran out of funding.

I've done a 6 month internship at KPMG, University experience working on a student programming team, lots of website development experience working for 2 companies and lots of my own projects including games and full stack projects.

I'm wondering if anyone with any success landing a job has any other strategies or methods that I should try or any meetups that would be worth going to?

Thanks.